Thank you, Mr. Ridgely, but I was more curious about my potential motivations for seeing the movie. I long ago stopped trying to understand the reasons other people act as they do, and now merely assume that everyone but myself and my ideological fellow-travelers act out of stupidity or unalloyed baby-eating malevolence. I'm looking into a career in cable television punditry.

"Is a Lulztopia the best we can hope for?!?" ~Taktix®
"Inexplicably cockfighting monsters that live in your pants" ~Jadagul

Hugh Akston wrote:I long ago stopped trying to understand the reasons other people act as they do, and now merely assume that everyone but myself and my ideological fellow-travelers act out of stupidity or unalloyed baby-eating malevolence. I'm looking into a career in cable television punditry.

If you go to work for Rupert Murdoch, you'll witness baby-eating malevolence first-hand.

"just build a quantum foam wall and make the tardigrades pay for it."
--Hugh

Speaking of which, dbcooper may have seen them the, um, legitimate way, but a British television station has been airing a short (three episode) 'series' called Black Mirror. The first show is about the kidnapping of a popular princess, the ransom demand being that the Prime Minister engage in, um, sexual intercourse with a pig live on television. I wish I could report hilarity ensued, but they apparently played it mostly seriously.

has anyone ever posited that the onion is actually a project by a team of time travellers trying to bypass the whole "if you change the past everyone in the future has toasters for thumbs" thing by leaving us subtle clues?

At the theater the other day, I saw a poster for The Secret World of Arrietty, based on the book The Borrowers. My first instinct was, "You changed the title and no doubt butchered a piece of my childhood! Die, scum!" But then David pointed out it was Hayao Miyazaki and released by Studio Ghibli, so ... maybe?

Oh, god, I loved that book so much. It was a perfect example of that thing somebody mentioned offhand somewhere and I've always wanted to read a really good analysis of, which was that how come all us girls who grew up in the 70s and 80s grew up reading middle grade books with sad/bittersweet/not-happily-ever-after endings? (I'm looking at you, The Great Gilly Hopkins.)

Ellie wrote:At the theater the other day, I saw a poster for The Secret World of Arrietty, based on the book The Borrowers. My first instinct was, "You changed the title and no doubt butchered a piece of my childhood! Die, scum!" But then David pointed out it was Hayao Miyazaki and released by Studio Ghibli, so ... maybe?

Oh, god, I loved that book so much. It was a perfect example of that thing somebody mentioned offhand somewhere and I've always wanted to read a really good analysis of, which was that how come all us girls who grew up in the 70s and 80s grew up reading middle grade books with sad/bittersweet/not-happily-ever-after endings? (I'm looking at you, The Great Gilly Hopkins.)

For some reason that book was on my shelf the whole time I was growing up, and I never read it. It's not like I let books being 'for girls' stop me. I just could never get into it.

"Sharks do not go around challenging people to games of chance like dojo breakers."

Ellie wrote:At the theater the other day, I saw a poster for The Secret World of Arrietty, based on the book The Borrowers. My first instinct was, "You changed the title and no doubt butchered a piece of my childhood! Die, scum!" But then David pointed out it was Hayao Miyazaki and released by Studio Ghibli, so ... maybe?

Just to save some time for anyone else here who is a cultural cripple like me: A quick Google image image search reveals that Hayao Miyazaki is not a hot Asian actress.

"I don't know if you can call it a stereotype when I was in a room full of people actually doing it." -- Keith S.

dhex wrote:has anyone ever posited that the onion is actually a project by a team of time travellers trying to bypass the whole "if you change the past everyone in the future has toasters for thumbs" thing by leaving us subtle clues?

I am so stealing this theory.

his voice is so soothing, but why do conspiracy nuts always sound like Batman and Robin solving one of Riddler's puzzles out loud? - fod